South Sudan President Salva Kiir has no plan to step down for anyone, his spokesman said Wednesday.

South Sudanese soldiers are passing through the territory of neighboring Uganda to launch assaults against rebels, raising the risk of the civil war spilling over into neighboring East African countries, South Sudanese rebels and witnesses said.

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called for an investigation amid claims that an  American reporter killed in South Sudan was deliberately targeted by government troops.

Cases of cholera re-emerged in southern Khartoum state. The disease emerged in El Sareif Beni Hussein and Foro Baranga localities in Darfur for the first time. And in East Jebel Marra, the Health Ministry deployed a medical team to an area where infections have rapidly spread in the past months.

Nine of out every ten refugees that have fled to Ethiopia from South Sudan are women or children. Action Against Hunger has been operating in Ethiopia since 1985, preventing malnutrition and improving communities access to clean water, food, income, and health care services.

South Sudan’s parliament has passed a $300m budget despite the war-torn country’s government conceding it lacked the funds to pay for it.